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But while scientists were – or should be – "grateful" for that decision, it was now time to boost science funding to a level comparable with that of the UK's closest G8 competitors such as Germany and the US.
"The government should address this by cementing recent positive policy steps to boost science and innovation by ensuring support joins up at every stage, from basic research through to commercialisation.
USAID also now partners with the U.S. National Science Foundation to give grants to boost science in developing countries.
Since then, the payoff from the president's annual budget requests to boost science spending has been mixed; in some years, Congress has even exceeded those requests.
In 2004, the British government published a 10-year plan for science and innovation that calls to boost science spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2014.
Late last month, the government announced a plan to boost science and technology spending over the next 4 years from $2.8 billion, or 0.9% of the gross national product in 1999, to the European average of 2% by 2003.
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European politicians have paid lip service to boosting science education and research as part of an economic recovery they say will be based on brain rather than brawn.
The resolution "should not be a significant impediment" to boosting science budgets later this year, says a senior aide to Representative Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee.
This last point is perhaps the most important, since one of the primary barriers to boosting science-related college majors is a lack of interest.
But in a big speech in June, he announced plans to help innovation flourish, boost science data sharing, and develop science ties with other continents.
Do you favor the creation of a European Research Council ( Science, 3 May 2002, p. 826) to boost basic science?
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